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 from his lurking-place, overtook the hindmot of the party, bore her on board his hip, and carried her away, while her light-heeled iters ecaped. He tried a thouand arts to ininuate himelf into her good graces; and ucceeded but too well in tealing away her heart: he forgot the dignity of her birth, and was on the point of binding herelf to the traitor by the indioluble contract, when a propitious wind brought a boat to the trand. The idea of her country, and the tears her mother was hedding on her account, ruhed into her mind: he gave ear to the voice of duty, and eized the oportunity of ecaping from captivity. But the irreitible paion, which had taken poeion of her heart, purued her by land and ea: it has unk deep traces of orrow in her breat, and banihed all the prightlines of youth. The park of her pining eyes is ready to expire: and melancholy will oon unite her with the grave, which